Category: Takeover
An urban explorer going by the Instagram handle @dark.cyanide infiltrated the famous Tiffany clock at Grand Central Terminal and posted some ridiculous photos of it. First reported by Untapped Cities, ANIMAL spoke to the photographer over email. “I do what I do because I like to explore places I never thought I would get to see in person.” […]
This weekend, ANIMAL reported that a person was arrested for graffiti at the Whitney during the museum’s marathon 36-hour closing of the Jeff Koons retrospective. We obtained video clips (watch above) that show the audacious stunt from start to finish. No art damaged, museum official said to me. But new photo angles on Koon's "Hanging […]
Miller, Williamsburg. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Earlier this year, a for-profit company named Wat-aah! staged a very public press conference with First Lady Michelle Obama to promote its high-end brand of bottled water, which is marketed to children with street art. “Wat-aah!’s mission is to make water undeniably cool and desirable among kids,” reads their about page on their Facebook. The company […]
World-traveling street art duo The Yok and Sheryo have completed painting a new piece on our former sugar-Mother’s “Dude” billboard that sits above ANIMAL’s Pub(lic) Art project. Check out our studio visit and Artist’s Notebook feature with the Yok & Sheryo. Watch the video above to see them in action. (Video: The Yok & Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Ebola is trending right now. And, according to the laws of internet capitalism, there are some pretty gross items on eBay — from “infected” mugs and “funny” anti-Obama (Thanks, “Obola!”) t-shirts, to horrendous graffiti-themed crap and accidentally topical arts and crafts, to… an “Ebola domain name hot new name priced to sell” for $999! Unlike the unfolding epidemic […]
ANIMAL has been bringing you continuing coverage from The New York Film Festival, which ran Sep 26 – Oct 12 at Film Society of Lincoln Center. Birdman will be released tomorrow, October 17th in New York. This concludes our coverage. Check out the others here. Birdman, the new film by Alejandro Gonzalez Inárritu (21 grams, Babel), is a film […]
“It’s kind of creepy,” joked British street artist Nick Walker, 45, looking at a remarkably detailed figurine made in his likeness. The sculpture had just arrived yesterday at the Manhattan gallery space where his first exhibit in four years, “All I Ever Wanted Was My Name On Fire,” opens tonight. (Click the gallery above for a preview.) It depicts […]
ANIMAL’s feature Game Plan asks game developers to share a bit about their process and some working images from the creation of a recent game. This week, we spoke with Matt Gilgenbach of Infinitap Games about Neverending Nightmares, a game that conveys the horrors of one developer’s struggles with mental illness. Depression is becoming a […]
“I don’t know much, but I do know for sure that I lost my virginity to an extraterrestrial woman,” says David Huggins. The 70-year-old from Hoboken, New Jersey has been making paintings of his encounters with aliens for many years. “I believe what he experienced was real to him,” filmmaker Brad Abrahams tells ANIMAL over the phone. You can […]
